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When running a zone offense, looking for and creating open space
is still necessary, but patience becomes even more important. There
are three different roles for players in the standard zone offense:
handler, popper, and long. The handlers work the disc from side
to side creating and looking for holes in the defense. The
poppers move in the middle of the field, timing their cuts off of the
swings by the handlers, hoping to receive passes through the holes in
the cup. The longs move along the sidelines. They alternate
coming in and going out as the disc leaves and comes towards the
sideline that they are on, respectively. (See the figure below.)
Once the disc is moved
up field, the receiver may quickly look for an easy open pass or (in
most cases) be patient and look to dump the disc (the dump is usually
available) and the pattern is repeated. (There are other methods as
well that you may discover on your own.)
